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Edited By Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book "fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics" and "includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists."

Book Information

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronoscolloquium in Antwerp (2006), which deal with the expression of modality(in a wide sense), by modal and semi-modal verbs (in Germanic and Romancelanguages), on the one hand, and by other markers (in languages likeTurkish, Tibetan and Japanese), on the other. The Antwerp edition’s specialconference topic was the interaction between tense and modality, of whichsome of the papers collected in this volume also testify. The volume coversa wide range of languages and topics. Specific topics include: thedistinction between root and epistemic modality and its interaction withtense and counterfactuality; epistemic deve and dovrebbe in Italian;semi-modals in German; the interpretation of epistemic past modals inEnglish and Spanish; the interface between Turkish ‘almost’ adverbs and theTurkish verbal system; the meaning of epistemic endings in Spoken StandardTibetan; Korean ‘evidential’ markers teiru and ta and so-called fake pastsentences in Japanese.

Contents

Tanja Mortelmans: IntroductionKristin M. Eide: Modals and the present perfectAn Verhulst and Renaat Declerck: Constraints on the meanings of modalauxiliaries in counterfactual clausesHamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria: Non-root past modalsAndrea Rocci: The Italian modal dovere in the conditional: futurereference, evidentiality and argumentationGabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova: The German evidential constructionsand their origins: a corpus based analysisEser E. Taylan and Ayhan Aksu-Koç: Adverbs at the interface of tense,aspect and modality: evidence from TurkishZuzana Vokurková: Epistemic modalities and evidentiality in Standard SpokenTibetanToshiyuki Sadanobu and Andrej Malchukov: Evidential extensions ofaspectotemporal forms in Japanese from a typological perspectiveSumiyo Nishiguchi: Fake past and covert emotive modality